Premiered at: 2006 Toronto imagine Native Film Festival and the 2006
American Indian Film Festival, San Francisco. Minneapolis filmmaker,
Dawn Mikkelson explores the source and concepts of power: from money;
hydroelectric power; power to destroy indigenous cultures; and the
power of the Manitoba Cree who refuse to be powerless in their
struggle to survive. The film tells the viewer where electricity
comes from. Surviving mass poverty, environmental devastation, and
hopelessness after three decades of governmental dam development,
northern Manitoba Cree communities are now faced with the likelihood
of an expanded series of dams for energy exports to the U.S. and
especially to utility energy companies such as Xcel Energy in Minnesota.